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    I was on my ship when a shipmate came yelling into our shop that a plane had crashed into one of the trade towers. We all hooked up the first tv we could find and watched the news unfold. Entire base went on alert and traffic coming into and out of the base ceased. Seal Team 2 was headquartered across the quaywall from where my ship was moored so after a while I went topside and just stared over at their facility, wondering if they would mobilize or react some how. Patrol and swift boats started entering the water. Lots of confusion most of the day. Made it off base and home twelve hours later and was still in awe over the entire situation. We all knew we would end up over in the gulf sooner or later...

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    I was in a meeting when one of our engineers popped into the room and said a plane just flew into one of the towers. I think most of us thought a small private plane. Finished the meeting quickly and I went back to my office to try and get some news on my radio. Information moved in and out of offices for about an hour and I was on and off the phone with family and friends. Then word came down that we had to evacuate NASA because of a possible bomb in a plane parked out by NASA property. Wife called and said there was a bomb on a plane next to NASA according to a news flash and how soon would I be home. I told her that the plane was about a 1/2 mile from me and trying to get about 3,500 people out the back gate would be about 2 hours so why sit in a traffic jam. I waited until all the traffic was gone and went home to watch TV. I knew we were going to go fight someone somewhere and I told my wife if I was younger I would sign-up back in the Air Force tomorrow. I guess at 49 I didn't want the recruiter to tell the "old man" to go home. That night was strange not hearing any airplanes flying over the house.
    May the force be with us.

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    I was standing in the office of a major ball bearing manufacturer not far from Cleveland- where I was supposed to spend the week in my FAA day job- reviewing regulatory compliance for an aviation supplier.

    I was also an Army National Guard company commander at the time, in charge of roughly 155 soldiers in Michigan. Part of a Signal Communications Battalion.

    At 8:45, we were in the office of this factory, and somebody shouted from downstairs to turn the tv on- because a plane had hit the World Trade Tower. We flipped on the TV, and watched the second plane crash into the other tower. Then we knew what was happening, and I was furious that I was stuck sitting in a state more than 300 miles from my Military unit.
    We cancelled the visit, but with everything grounded and shut down, it took some time for higher ups to make decisions about whether I could cancel the audit and go back to my miltiary unit, and it took me 24 hours to get back to my military unit. We didn't actually muster until a week later, when we ended up doing airport security for a couple weeks. But everybody knew that day that the world had changed.

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    I was driving to work listening to traffic/news/sports/talk radio. They broke in to the sports segment with a bulletin about a plane hitting one of the towers at World Trade Center. Brief discussion by local radio about no details and what type of plane. Back to schedule. Shortly they went to a live network feed. Still no details but a description of the scene from a few vantage points. As I was coming though the gate, one of the commentators screamed that the other tower just exploded. Another said, no a large passenger jet flew in to it. At that point I knew it was not an accident.

    FWIW this proves I was late to work that day.

    By the time I got to the shop everyone was watching the TV. Most of us broke away from time to time to do the j.o.b. but I did get back just in time to see the first tower collapse. A co-worker got a call from his son in DC (welfare call) saying he was OK but the pentagon was pretty messed up. About that time the news announced that attack.

    We got pretty busy almost right away, lots of decisions to be made. Increased security checks. At one point walking between buildings I noticed a big increase in air traffic. By the end of the long day I noticed no air traffic. We are about 6 miles off the outer marker. Later I realized the big increase was unscheduled traffic landing. Sometime during the day a GS-15 confiscated our TV set. To put it in a conference room for everyone to view. Good call GS-15! We were too busy to watch it anyway. I didn't hear about flight 93 until I got home.

    All travelers were recalled. The rest of us were told to bring a travel bag Wednesday and be prepared.

    After that it was very weird seeing almost no air traffic and hearing military jets using full afterburner over residential areas. There was other stuff in the sky, some very strange looking.

    When I watched the tower collapse I thought of all the people, especially the firemen trudging upward.

    At some point that morning someone called me and told me the second tower had collapsed. I asked if it looked like the first one and was told pretty much. I didn't bother to go look.

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    Driving a delivery truck in Cleveland listening to Howard Stern...he stayed on til I think almost noon

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    I was looking in the mirror, shaving...enjoying a potential day with no stress, because I was driving from Maryland up to New York to make a presentation.

    My bathroom radio had a news flash...the Wife was already at her job, teaching at an elementary school, but I tuned in the TV and saw what was happening...I left the house anyway, and was somewhere in eastern PA, listening to the radio reports, when I heard the word about Flight 93. I pulled off the road in Allentown, PA, and called my destination Federal office...a recorded message said they were not taking calls, and the conference I was heading to was cancelled...called the Wife's cell phone, and left a message I was heading back home...She called me back later, and said the school was locked down, and she'd get home as soon as she could...

    A crazy time, for sure...

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